Software Delivery Contracts in the North of England

Software Delivery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Software Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 154 180
Rank change year-on-year +3 +26 -13
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 15 31 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.46% 0.65% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.76% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 31
10th Percentile £365 £441 £413
25th Percentile £416 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £563 £715 £585
90th Percentile £650 £720 £638
England median daily rate £550 £595 £588
% change year-on-year -7.56% +1.28% -2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Software Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in the North of England

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in the North of England

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in the North of England

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in the North of England

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Delivery within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +4 8 £490 -21.60% 85
North East +1 5 £600 -16.67% 21
North West -4 2 - - 84
Software Delivery
England

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) GitHub
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) CloudBees
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Git
2 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) JUnit
3 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Lead
1 3 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (13.33%) IT Manager
2 2 (13.33%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.67%) React Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Node.js
2 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) ADO
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) CSS3
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) HTML5
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (33.33%) TDD
5 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
5 4 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (26.67%) Design Patterns
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
5 4 (26.67%) SDLC
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
6 3 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) Kotlin
4 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
5 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (13.33%) Bash
7 1 (6.67%) Groovy
7 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) PMO
3 1 (6.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Packer
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Veeam